search in open tabs (not DropDown)

PasshereDude

Is there a hope in the next Versions of notepad++ to get this funktion to search in open Files(Tabs) like e.g. in Firefox?
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Thank you so much for check this!

Alan Kilborn

@PasshereDude said:

search in open Files(Tabs)

If you press Ctrl+f the “Find” window will open.
One of the choices there is to “Find All in All Open Documents”.
This is the same thing as what you are asking for, AFAICT.

PeterJones

@PasshereDude said in search in open tabs (not DropDown):

to search in open Files(Tabs) like e.g. in Firefox?

@Alan-Kilborn and I interpreted this differently. It’s because you are expecting us to have knowledge of Firefox , but I personally stopped using that browser years ago.

Alan’s suggestion is right, if you mean, “search the contents of the open files”.

But if https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-open-tabs-firefox is the feature you are talking about, and if I understand that page correctly, then I think you mean, “search the names of the files/tabs”, I don’t believe that feature currently exists. The Windows menu allows various ways of helping you find a tab (either sorting them, or using the Window… action to get a dialog for sorting, looking at), but not actually a search feature.
https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-interface/#window-menu

Such a thing would be a reasonable feature request, as our feature request FAQ explains how to search existing feature requests, or make a new official request.

Assuming my interpretation, then:

Is there a hope in the next Versions of notepad++ to get this funktion

In the next version? Almost 0% chance. Sometime in the future? That’s more likely